Community health assessment is the collecting, analyzing and using data to educate and mobilize communities, develop priorities, gather resources, and plan actions to advance the public’s health (Minnesota Department of Health, n.d.). A community health assessment delivers the groundwork for cultivating and promoting the health of the community. Evaluating environmental health risks in communities requires models characterizing geographic […]
Healthcare marketing ethics, just like any other types or forms of ethics are important; not only can it grow profit margin; it can also protect organizations from lawsuits, as well as attract patients who appreciate and can afford quality care services. Ethics are a collection of principles of right conduct that shape the decisions people […]
Abortion and contraception have been a hot-button issue since the implementation of our constitutional rights. Just to point out that both are said to be legal medical practice in the healthcare industry, and in many states, including referencing prior case decisions of Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Roe v. Wade. These case decisions indicated that in some […]
Aetna is an American managed health care company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care and disability plans, and medical management capabilities. Aetna provides employers and employees with choices between paying on a fixed monthly basis (premium) […]
Demographics are the traits of a human population. Demographic data may consist of age, disability, race, gender, income, mobility, home ownership, location, employment status, and/or education level. The data will then be used to regulate marketing demographic trends. These trends describe the changes that may occur in certain demographic populations, over a period of time. […]
Market research is broader in choice and examines all aspects of a business setting. It asks questions about competitors, market structure, government regulations, economic trends, technological advances, and numerous other factors that make up the business environment. Sometimes the term refers more particularly to the financial analysis of companies, industries, or sectors. In this case, […]
SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats, and so a SWOT Analysis is a technique for assessing these four aspects of your business. You can use SWOT Analysis to make the most of what you’ve got, to your organization’s best advantage. And you can reduce the chances of failure, by understanding what you’re lacking, […]
As the use of dashboards continues to grow, it is time to step back and ask how they can help hospitals increase quality and lower costs. We know emergency department (ED) tracking boards have reduced the time-to-be-seen and left-without-being-seen rates, while clinical dashboards have helped clinicians with care protocols, drug administration and patient status, which improves the quality of patients’ care […]
Using dashboards in a hospital facility are very useful in managing many of the key sides of medical operations and that also guarantee care providers are fairly compensated while the quality of patient care is continued. capturing information that provides real-time process and cycle data as two of the important benefits of using dashboards. This […]
Daly, M. (August 26, 2010). Judge determines GPOs do not violate antitrust laws. Healthcare Finance News. Retrieved February 3, 2013 from http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/blog/judge-determines-gpos-do-not-violate-antitrust-laws As an added support to the important and clarification of the primary article presented above; according to this article, judge determines GOPs do not violate antitrust laws, “for some time now, we have […]
